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Recover Files from a failed hard drive

The Drive is formated with NTFS and when trying to load WinXP Pro from Master drive or as a secondary drive with a master runnig a good copy of XP Pro it restarts pc as it accesses the drive each time. It will boot to the XP startup menu but reboots after you choose how to start, (Safe mode or normal mode) etc. How can I recover the files in My documents from this drive.

Win XP (on your Master Drive) may be conflicting with the Win XP on your slave.If you have Partition Magic 8.0 (PM8), you can try the following:1. Disconnect the slave drive (your bad one).2. Install PM8 to the master drive.3. Create Rescue Disks (using PM4. Power down & reconnect your slave drive5. Boot from the rescue floppies and enter the PM8 utility program.6. Set the partition on your slave drive to "hidden."7. Remove the floppies & reboot to the master8. Open PM8, right click on your slave partition and select "Browse"9. Select the file(s) you want to recover, right click, and select "Copy"10.Change the "Look in" entry to your master drive's partition, navigate to a folder of your choice, right click and select "Paste".11.Viola!

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